Jar-lifter.



PATENTED JULY '7, 1908.

No. 892,588. v

J. W. GIENGER.

, JAR LIFTERl APyLIoATIoN FILED AUG. 13. 1907.

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PATENTED JULY '7, 1908. J. W. GIENGER.

JAR LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 13. 1907.

ZSHEBTS-SHBET 2 JOHN W. GIENGER, OF BUCK VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

JAR-LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application led August 13, 1907. Seria1 No. 388,382.

T o all whom it lmay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. GIENGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buck Valley, in the county of Fulton, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jar-Lifters and I do hereby declare the 'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to jar litters and has for its object to provide a device of this class which is not only simple in construction, but which may be applied to any jar.

The device comprises a pair of pivoted frames each of which has a portion adapted to partly embrace the neck of a jar and f handles are included in the 'frames and may be grasped to swing the Jframes on their pivots and thereby tend to close the device and cause the jar neck engaging portions thereof to tightly clasp a jar neck.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device yshowing the manner of applying the same to a jar, Fie. 2 is a front elevation, Fig. 3 is a bottom p an view, Fig. 4- is a detail pers ective view of one of the pivoted 'frames cisjointed from the other, Fig. 5 is a detail vertical sectional view through one of the pivot joints for the frame7 and, Fig. 6 is a similar view through one end of one of the handles.

As both of the members are identical in construction a descri tion of one of the 'frames will suflice for oth.

Each of the frames of the device is formed almost entirely oi a single strand of wire which is bent at its middle in a curve less than a semi-circle as indicated by the numeral 7 and at each end ot' its curved ortion 7 is bent laterally as at 8 and thence irectly upwardly as at 9, the upwardly directed portions being parallel With respect to each other and being extended in a vertical plane which is at right angles to the plane at which the curved portion 7 is located. The portions 9 adjacent their middles are looped upon themselves to form eyes l() and the eyes of the two members aline and are parallel. These eye portions 10 are located in such a manner that the vertically extending portions 9 of the frame lie tangential thereto or in other Words the eye members are oliset from the vertically extending members. At their upper ends the vertically extending portions 9 are bent as at 1 1 around one end or' a handle l2 for the respective frame and in a circumscribing groove 13 formed in the handle at the corresponding end.

In assembling the device, the frames are placed together so that their eye portions 10 will register at opposite sides and rivets 14 are then engaged through these eye members.

What isclaimed is- A jar lifter comprising a pair of frames each 'formed of a single strand ol wire bent at its middle in a curve less than a semi-circle, the wire at the ends of the curve being turned slightly laterally and then bent into a plane at right angles to the plane occupied by the curved portion, the upwardly bent portion of the Wire at each side of each frame being looped upon itself adjacent its middle to form an oil'set eye portion, a handle foreach of the frames, said handle being provided at each of its ends with a circumscribnig groove, the up er ends of the vertically bent portions oi) the wire being bent around the handle ends in the grooves, the frames thus formed being placed together with their eye portions registering and oilset in a direction toward each other, and rivets engaged through the said eye portions.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN IV. GIENGER.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. SNYDER, f BENNETTE RoBIsoN. 

